Job Description:Lead the security strategy behind advanced, mission-critical technology. In this role, you'll drive secure and scalable solutions, collaborate across technical and business teams, and help ensure complex systems are protected, compliant, and ready for real-world operations.
What you'll do:Own the authorization portfolio- Hold overall accountability for RMF execution across all Shield AI classified systems under JSIG, DAAPM, and NIST SP 800-53, driving toward continuous authorization as the goal state.
- Maintain a single authoritative view of authorization posture: ATO and IATT status, expiration dates, conditions, open POA&M items, and assessment findings across every system and site.
- Own the accreditation roadmap and commit dates with program management, and manage the dependencies - facility, network, tooling, and personnel - that determine whether those dates hold.
- Represent Shield AI as the senior security authority with Authorizing Officials, SCAs, government program security officers, and DCSA or cognizant SAPCO representatives.
- Drive reciprocity and inheritance strategy so controls implemented once are reused across programs and sites instead of re-litigated in each package.
- Approve risk acceptance recommendations, deviations, and mitigation strategies before they go to the government, and escalate residual risk to Shield AI leadership with a clear position.
Build the capability, not just the packages- Define the enterprise continuous monitoring strategy - vulnerability scanning, STIG and SRG compliance, audit review, and configuration drift detection - and hold the team to a reportable cadence.
- Standardize package templates, control evidence libraries, hardening baselines, and inheritance documentation so new enclaves start from an accredited pattern.
- Invest in automation - infrastructure as code, scripted STIG application, scan and evidence pipelines - to make compliance repeatable rather than heroic.
- Select and own the security compliance toolchain (eMASS or Xacta, ACAS/Nessus, SCAP, SIEM) including budget, licensing, and government-directed tooling requirements.
- Define metrics that reflect real security posture and report them to Federal Systems and company leadership.
Partner across the company- Work with IT, network, platform, and product security engineers so security architecture is designed in rather than retrofitted before an assessment.
- Partner with Industrial Security, Facilities, and Contracts on new facility and enclave stand-ups from concept through ATO, including accredited network extensions between facilities.
- Advise program managers and engineering leadership on accreditation timelines and the security consequences of architecture, schedule, and staffing decisions.
- Own incident response leadership on classified systems: containment, spillage and contamination response, government reporting, and after-action corrective plans.
- Ensure the classified user population is trained, access is least-privilege and auditable, and data transfer and media control actions follow program guidance.
Required qualifications:- Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field
- 8+ years of experience in cybersecurity engineering, defense systems, mission systems, or military aerospace programs
- Experience leading cybersecurity activities for complex integrated systems or defense platforms
- Strong knowledge of RMF, STIGs, system hardening, network security, secure architectures, and vulnerability management processes
- Experience working across hardware, software, networking, and mission system integration environments
- Active Top Secret Clearance with SCI Eligibility
Preferred qualifications:- Experience supporting military aircraft, UAV, mission systems, or tactical communication platforms
- Familiarity with resilient system architectures, zero trust principles, cross-domain solutions, and contested environment operations
- Experience with MBSE methodologies and tools such as Cameo Systems Modeler
- Background supporting cybersecurity test events, airworthiness, or platform accreditation activities
$170,000 - $250,000 a year
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Full-time regular employee offer package:
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Temporary employee offer package:
Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)
Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information.
